Advertising Quotes - Page 39

• I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical.

  Elton John

  Taken, Giving, Magazines

  "Elton John: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Paul Gambaccini, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 1973.

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• People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Want, Mouths

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art.

  Jared Leto

  Art, Transcendent

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• I’ve spent some time working with a non-Italian designer, I’ve been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one!

  Allegra Versace

  Fashion, Italian, Creative

  "Allegra Versace Talks Anorexia, Making A Name For Herself In Fashion" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

  Yves Behar

  Pay, Company

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• I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.

  Lily Cole

  Ideas, Knowing, Selling

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of inebriation, the far less harmful drug of marijuana remains illegal and continues to ruin people's lives - only if they are caught possessing and convicted of that crime.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Marijuana, Years, America

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• The most frequent reason for unsuccessful advertising is advertisers who are so full of their own accomplishments (the world's best seed!) that they forget to tell us why we should buy (the world's best lawn!).

  John Caples

  Accomplishment, World, Forget

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• The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

  Aldous Huxley

  Interesting, Modern, Form

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  War, Thinking, People

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• It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Giving, Use, World

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1946). “If You Ask Me”

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• What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.

  May Sarton

  Men, America, Giving

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• Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Lying, Believe, People

  Linda Ellerbee (1991). “Move on: adventures in the real world”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?

  Marya Mannes

  Mean, Two, Differences

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

  Erica Jong

  Art, Media, Selling Things

  Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.4, Grove Press

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• I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

  Bruce Barton

  Successful, Sides, Copies

  "The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators". Book by Stephen R. Fox, 1984.

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• The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model - whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

  Bruce Barton

  Hard Work, Home, People

  "Fables Of Abundance: A Cultural History Of Advertising In America". Book by T. J. Jackson Lears, 1994.

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• Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising; but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell.

  Bruce Barton

  Men, Names, People

  "The Man Nobody Knows". Book by Bruce Fairchild Barton. Chapter 5: "His Advertisements", 1925.

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• We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.

  Molly Ivins

  Nice, Rap, Home

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• Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became a major industry and the middle class bought radios to hear the ads and cars to get to the stores. ... But there is no question that the consumer culture had begun to crowd out all other cultural possibilities by the years following World War II.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Years, Class

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.

  Freya Stark

  Disregard, Advertisements

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• The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

  Freya Stark

  Fashion, Art, Garden

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• The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.

  Mary McCarthy

  Soul, Today, Rooms

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• Who are the advertising men kidding, besides the European tourist? Between the tired, sad, gentle faces of the subway riders and the grinning Holy Families of the Ad-Mass, there exists no possibility of even a wishful identification.

  Mary McCarthy

  Tired, Men, Faces

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage.

  Haile Gerima

  Strong, Cash Flow, Kind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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